Is bisexuality a choice

Answer 1

Bisexuality is a sexual orientation. A person's sexual orientation is not believed to be a choice, but rather it is how they are mentally and emotionally hardwired or 'set' from birth. A bisexual is a person who is romantically and/or sexually attracted to both males and females. A bi person's orientation is no more of a choice than is a heterosexual or homosexual person's sexual orientation. People are the way they are.

There is a myth that bisexuality is a 'choice' because a bi person 'chooses' to date either a girl/woman or boy/man. But whom a bi person falls in love with is no more of a choice than whom a gay or straight person falls in love with. You love whom you love.

All human beings exercise a choice of partner from among the people to whom they are attracted, but the situation is no different for a bi person than for a gay or straight person. It may seem on the surface that being attracted to two genders gives a bisexual person more of a choice among a wider range of partners -- but the reality is that the anti-bisexual prejudices and misunderstanding that ripple throughout both gay and straight communities can constrain the dating pool for bisexual people. In other words, bi people may have twice the amount of people to choose from but also face double the chance of rejection.